An edition of A History of Contraception (1990)

A history of contraception

from antiquity to the present

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A history of contraception
Angus McLaren, Angus McLaren
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An edition of A History of Contraception (1990)

A history of contraception

from antiquity to the present

  • 2 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

"This book, the first history of contraception for almost fifty years, provides a scholarly and highly readable account of procreation and attempts to prevent it from ancient Greece to the late twentieth century. The story, as the author shows, is not one of unalleviated progress, and anything but a simple passage from ignorance to enlightenment. Marshalling evidence from demography, medicine, literature, religious, family and women's history, he shows both that the idea of limiting progeny is ever present in human history and that many contraceptive practices have endured for at least two and a half millennia. In considering questions of both motivation and method, Angus McLaren reveals the intimate interactions between reproductive decision-making on the one hand and social, economic, political and gender relationships on the other."--Back cover.

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B. Blackwell
Language
English
Pages
275

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Oxford, UK, Cambridge, Mass., USA
Series
Family, sexuality, and social relations in past times

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Dewey Decimal Class
363.9/6/09

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Pagination
viii,275p.;
Number of pages
275

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OL23761667M
ISBN 10
0631167110

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OL661668W

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